On 9/16/07, Frank S. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Thibaut,
Hi Frank, > On Thursday 30 August 2007 20:33:30 Thibaut VARENE wrote: > > The reason why I think the boinc approach of hardcoding everything > > into the client is broken by design is because many platforms can > > actually execute 'foreign' code: > > > > G5/PPC750 ('powerpc') and later can execute ppc and ppc64 > > Cell ('powerpc') can execute ppc, ppc64 and cell code > > amd64 can execute i386 and x86_64 code > > ia64 can execute ia64, i386 and potentially hppa code > > > > and I'm sure more example like that will arise. I think the boinc > > client should leave the 'power user' tweak it as they see fit to > > execute whatever they'd like. After all, if they goof, the worst case > > is a segfault or a sigill ;) > > Ok, so a good solution for your problem would be, if it were possible to set > the platform name, which uses the client for identification, in the client's > configuration file cc_config.xml, because the alternate platform mechanism is > not applicable in your situation. Right? Richtig! ;-) Thibaut -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]